mouse doesnt work right. (the scroling weehl)

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: mouse doesnt work right. (the scroling weehl)
started by: bravo-uniform-golf

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Nov. 14 2006,00:01

i use a sunnyline optical mouse on usb port
but the wheel in the middle doesnt work when i use it noting happens in Firefox

Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 14 2006,01:20

What X server are you using? Xvesa, fbdev, XFree86?
You may need to specify a 5-button mouse, and if using XFree86 you may need to map z-axis for buttons 4 and 5

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Nov. 14 2006,01:38

i dont know i talk about DSL
what is X server?

Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 14 2006,02:24

ok...so you're using Xvesa =o)

If you look in /home/dsl/.xserverrc, does it include the number 5 next to the mouse device? (-mouse "/dev/something",5)

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Nov. 14 2006,03:05

i cant find a file called .xserverrc in
/home/dsl/

using emelfm

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Nov. 14 2006,03:16

when i use firefox i get this

exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -mouse "/dev/input/mice" -screen 1024x768x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

how can i edit this

Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 14 2006,04:09

.xserverrc, and every other file that begins with a dot, is a "hidden" file. In Emelfm, click the "H" button or press Ctrl+h to toggle view of hidden files.

I have no idea if adding ,5 after "/dev/input/mice" will fix it, bt i don't see how it could hurt.

As an aside, is there really any benefit to using usb mouse or keyboard? My personal experience has been that there is no performance improvement, and it just serves to waste a perfectly good USB port, particularly when the 2 ps/2 ports then just go to waste.

Posted by sankarv on Nov. 14 2006,04:09

try editing command line using xterm

vi /home/dsl/.xserverrc

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 14 2006,05:55

USB can have a higher response rate, leading to smoother frames, etc.

I think the max for ps/2 was 200-something Hz, while modern USB mice can go up to 1KHz (though I believe 500Hz is recommended).

Naturally, gamers, etc. would want something like this...

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Nov. 14 2006,18:33

i did only found usb mise in the shop i bought the mouse(the mouse was verry cheap) and my brother needed a usb mouse for his laptop so bought 2 mise because i used to use a non-optical mouse

Posted by Unknown User on Nov. 15 2006,13:58

I used this:

1. Quit X (ctrl+alt+backspace).
2. Run xsetup.sh.
3. Select your desired resolution, then select USB mouse.
4. Run startx.

It´s from DSL Wiki.

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Nov. 15 2006,20:14

Thx this worked perfect
now i have the right keyboard config too

Posted by Unknown User on Nov. 16 2006,17:07

That´s good.

Posted by Ramik on Nov. 24 2006,06:49

Hello, since I have a similar problem, I figured this would be better then posting a new thread:

I have a Generic 520PCI Serial Mouse + Wheel, I managed to get it going in the default Xserver (Xvesa) with xsetup.sh by choosing 3 button, ttys0, and 520 DPI.

The problem is whenever I try to set .xserverrc manually as 5button, my Xserver crushes:

Quote

xinit: Server error.

I think its a bug rather then a misconfiguration, but I would like your input on this...

Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 24 2006,15:58

what are you doing to change to 5-button mouse, and when you say 5, do you mean mousewheel? I don't think DSL's x supports more than 3 push buttons (just a guess, though)

Posted by Ramik on Nov. 24 2006,16:06

Well, I replaced the "3buttons" with "5buttons".

Edit : Ignore this, it only happens when I'm using 3buttons instead of 2buttons...
Their is an additional problem, I can't drag !
When ever I press and hold the mouse button on desired windows frame, or trying to mark a piece of text the mouse doesn't respond to me moving it and when I release the button it act like a double click !

I have tested this mouse on a windows machine with no problems so its not hardware...

What am I doing wrong